The Balolo Setup Cockpit is a highly useful and well-designed desk organizer that can significantly increase productivity, with a mounting grid on the underside of the shelf that allows for interchang
What if you could save space and still be productive at your desk? The Setup Cockpit from Balolo is a desk shelf with a mounting grid on the underside of the horizontal piece of wood, allowing interchangeable accessories to mount to the shelf quickly and precisely. This mounting grid comprises a series of mounting positions for modular accessories — we could hang a pair of headphones, mount a phone on a small MagSafe Mount, and place two monitors on the stand, helping boost productivity no end.
We unpacked the Setup Cockpit in a few minutes, placing the stand on a desk and assembling the parts without using any of the included instructions. After unboxing the accessories, we laid out a plan to best use every additional piece in the most productive way, as this desk was used daily by a team member who utilizes multiple monitors and prefers to have their laptop open as another display.
We immediately noticed how helpful it is to have a mounting grid to organize accessories. After we looked at the many different options Balolo offers, we chose to add 10 accessories to our Desk Shelf; the Tray, Phone Stand, Headphone Stand, Laptop Riser, Laptop Dock (for Setup Cockpit), Laptop Dock, Cable Organizer, Magsafe Holder, Catch-All Tray, and the Deskpad Woolfelt. All these accessories are high quality, sturdy, and very cleanly designed, and they are all holding up very well.
Balolo recognized that modern desktops and workstations are more than just monitors that need to lift off a desk. Raising a monitor to eye level is important, but it’s not enough in the modern workplace, as we all use extra gadgets, tablets, headphones, and other peripherals.
So, Balolo set out to create accessories that would not only look great but be able to mount to the Desk Shelf in ways that would enhance overall productivity.
This is achieved by creating a clean workspace, consolidating clutter, and having zones for important items, so they are not lost on the desk. We appreciate Balolo’s choice of 15-play birchwood as the main material for the Desk Shelf due to its lightweight form and beautiful woodgrain.
The Setup Cockpit we used is available in three colors: American Walnut, Oak, and all-black. We reviewed the large-size Desk Shelf, which is wide enough to support two side-by-side monitors or a single ultrawide monitor and can serve as a base for multiple accessories and lift monitors off a desk.
The Phone Stand accessory for the Setup Cockpit is pretty self-explanatory. It mounts to the Setup Cockpit with a single bolt and can rotate to face whatever direction desired. The bottom of the stand has a cutout that allows us to swipe up on our phone easily without needing to reach around the lip of the phone stand or plug in a cable without needing to remove our phone from the stand.
